N.W.A. Covers ‘Billboard’
Billboard Wit Attitudes
The original members of N.W.A. land on this week’s cover of ‘Billboard’. During the photo shoot, Kendrick Lamar sat with the members to discuss the film, Straight Outta Compton, their legacy and everything else in between. Read the story in full here.
As one of your offspring, anything I do comes from what y’all have done before me. I’m curious to know how you feel about my generation of artists.
MC Ren: I like a few. I like you.
Dr. Dre: You’re No. 1 on my list because of the care and attention you bring to your tracks and the precision you bring to your sound. There are a few people out there I listen to and respect.
MC Ren: Pusha T.
Dr. Dre: Definitely Pusha T.
MC Ren: I’m not saying this because you’re here, Kendrick, but I like your song “Cut You Off.” I’ve been listening to you for a minute.
Thank you. Now I’m wondering, is there anything my generation should build on and bring back to the game?
Ice Cube: That’s tricky, man. An artist has to do it like he feels it — not because he should, or someone else says he should. Hip-hop got too focused on results and record sales. Sales have nothing to do with the art you create in the studio.
Dr. Dre: When we started out, it wasn’t for money. It was for the love of music. You treat her right, and she’ll treat you right. If your only aim is money, your time will be limited.
DJ Yella: We just went in there and did what we wanted.
Where them Dr. Dre dickriders at? Dre can’t even get a no. 1 album while Drake and Meek Mill have them.
Right here you internet troll! I could care less how many records his albums sell! Dre and NWA paved the way for your favorite rapper. Take a seat. And I witnessed you upvote your own shit while I was typing my first comment smh
Lol…. Straight weirdo where’s young homo thug #1 album.
Dre can’t even get a no. 1 album despite him being allegedly more popular than MMG and OVO. Lol.
Sonic “Where them Dre dickriders at?”
You: “Right here!”
Bro…smh.
My response obviously went over your head! Would “Stan” or #DreHive or whatever the fuck you internet trolls say nowadays be more acceptable? I was answering sarcastically smart guy
Dead
It was exclusively released on Apple… It will outsell meek in a month. And why you niggas still speaking on album sales… Dre already rich and famous smh.
Keep in mind Dre is pop while MMG and OVO are hip hop… so Compton really should have done better. Even Eminem did over 700k 1st week.
MMG falling the last 6 MMG albums flopped
Meek Mill’s DWMTM was number in the country 2 weeks in a row.
Wale’s last album was number too.
Omarion had a number 1 single in the country with the smash hit ‘Post To Be’
All this in 2015. Use your brain, mister. Smh.
OVO is Hiphop? There as the new backstreet boys. MMG is Hiphop but you’re an idiot for comparing Dr.Dre with them a decade after his prime you troll. Young thug will never see a number one album in his career
OVO is not hiphop, and MMG is a current movement in rap… Dre been out 30 years.
OVO is a bunch of ghostwriter hiring popstars gettin sued by the woman who write their sh–, and MMG(as much as I like their music) is ran by a ex- prison guard rappin about selling drugs. The reason why they can even rap about gangster sh– and make so much money is because of what N.W.A. started way back when. Please doctrine… just play couch and tap that button, ya favorite show comin on youngin. #BeQuiet #GrownFolksTalkin
Just like week you were excited about Gunplay’s Living Legend low sales.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
#Cripki
Dre got the #1 rap album in the country you fag ass nigga. You got AIDS nigga get your AZT treatment for you faint. All those artist you named wont be around in 10 years!
FINALLY! Billboard gets it right! Good to see all of them together on the cover (with the exception of Eazy – Rest In Peace)
lol he just wants to cash in on the NWA one more time before he disappears. Any time you hear a rapper in the news you can guarantee they either just released an album or have one ready for release. The music industry is just as staged and cheesy as the WWE.
Yes. That is true. Entertainers only talk to media when they have things to promote. It’s called marketing.
Besides how to prey on children, what the fuck do Mexicans teach each other?
You started off on a good note but end up in a shit hole fuck you kris.
lmaooooooooo
Fuck you.
“El Chapo” is really Haitian, and his government name is Vladimir François. He wants to pass as Mexican for whatever reason.
#TheRachelDolezalEffect
Your mother is Haitian bitch you don’t know me faggot.
You’re Haitian, Vladimir François. That’s your government name.
LMAO @ your stupid ass!!! All your “God/Messiah” 50 Cent does is snipe people to keep his name in the public & try to ca$h in on the attention! A few weeks back I easily pointed out that when 50’s going through shit he’s no where to be found & as soon as the spotlight is on someone else’s fuck ups/mistakes there he is sniping away.
Did you hear that 9 shot from fif?
Just like your favorite rapper 50 Cent.
Shut bitch fif is a marketing genius stop hating…that’s all you do.
Hm.. and here I was wondering why it’s called entertainment business.
What do you want, to have rappers in the media all the time, talking stupid, irrelevant sh!z just to get cover and interviews? Of course they will focus on the media, and media will focus on them, when they have something to show and say.
There’s Yella and Ren for all of you fuckin crybabies.
Why are we crybabies? NWA was and is a group not just Dre and Cube smh. It’s good to see them together! You don’t have a family reunion with just two members do you? Smh
Dre & Cube are responsible for the movie being put out.
smh never mind carry on
Still isn’t NWA without Ren right there too. Though he never went onto the same success as Dre and Cube, he’s as important on those records. One of the illest voices in rap ever IMO
Billboard got it right!! Fuck rolling stone
thats dope how Kendrick gave the interview salute billboard!!
Excellent interview, Kendrick asked the perfect questions and got the perfect answers. I know he took in every answer as if they were talking to him and his career…GOOD JOB!
the original gangstas
Billboard did it better than Rolling Stone mag. Any NWA cover must include MC Ren and DJ Yella as well.
Good job, Billboard mag!!!
Can’t have NWA without M.C. Ren or Yella… Ren’s solo career may have not blossomed like Cubes but he’s just as important to the Group..No your history cry baby…FOH!!
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